Associate Professor of Business

Staging - People and Culture Management
Minor

Learn to Lead the People Behind the Work
Every team and every workplace runs on people. Learn to lead them well, and you’ll be valuable anywhere.
The People and Culture Management minor at Goshen College teaches you to manage and lead people. Specifically, you’ll study conflict and mediation. You’ll also learn how people develop and act in groups.
If you’ve ever been part of a team, you already know the difference good leadership makes. So this minor turns that instinct into real skill. And because every organization runs on people, the payoff is portable. As a result, it’s a practical edge you can carry into almost any career, in any country.

What You’ll Be Able to Do
By the time you finish the minor, you’ll be able to:
- Manage the people side of an organization, hiring, culture, motivation, and team performance, using real human-resource and organizational-behavior practices.
- Read how people behave in groups and across a lifespan, and use mediation to turn conflict into progress.
In other words, you’ll be the person a team actually wants leading it, the one who gets the work done and keeps the people whole.

Real Skills, Not Just Theory
The minor is built around how people actually work together. You study motivation, group dynamics, and leadership through real case studies; you practice the third-party skills that resolve conflict instead of escalating it. You also have access to the human-resource side, where sociology and psychology show you why people do what they do.
It’s the kind of practical fluency that strengthens whatever you already do, on a team, in a club, in a startup, in a nonprofit, or in your own plans for life after graduation.
Common Questions About the People and Culture Management Minor
The 18-credit minor includes People & Culture Management (BUS 315), Organizational Behavior (BUS 364), Operations Management (BUS 318), Mediation (PJCS 325), and Principles of Sociology (SOC 200), plus your choice of Developmental Psychology (PSYC 210) or Human Behavior (SOWK 221).
You’ll be able to manage the people side of an organization, hiring, culture, motivation, and team performance, and use mediation to turn conflict into progress. You’ll understand how people behave in groups and across a lifespan, which makes you the kind of person teams actually want leading them.
Almost any of them. Because every field is run by people, the minor strengthens majors from business, sport management, and nursing to the arts and sciences. Anywhere you’ll manage a team, build a culture, or handle conflict, it’s a portable credential that signals you can lead people well.
Two things. The minor mirrors the People and Culture Management concentration in the Business major, and you choose one course between Developmental Psychology (PSYC 210) and Human Behavior (SOWK 221). Like every business minor at Goshen, you must earn a grade of C- or higher in each required course. Your advisor can help you map it out.
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